KEEPING IT SAFE WITH MANX TELECOM
11 September 2009
Disaster recovery technology approved by
eGaming regulator
The growing number of online gambling companies taking
up residence on the Isle of Man to make the most of its
advanced financial and technical infrastructure and
benevolent tax regime, will have the added comfort of
one of the most advanced disaster recovery systems in
Europe following recent developments on the island.
Manx Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of O2 and
part of the TelefĆ³nica Group of companies, has been
licensed as an approved e-Gaming Disaster Recovery
Provider by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision
Commission, the company announced this week. The licence
will enable the company to provide e-Gaming clients with
disaster recovery facilities under the Island’s
legislation covering online gaming.
Established
in 1889, Manx Telecom is the Island’s main provider of
fixed, mobile, internet and wholesale carrier telecom
networks, and was the first company on-island to provide
data centre services. The company’s involvement in
e-Gaming also goes back to the earliest days of the
sector, having hosted the first ever live e-Gaming sites
to register with the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision
Commission, in 2001.
Since then, the utility has
gone on to invest heavily - a reported GBP 120 million -
in the Island’s data centre and telecommunications
infrastructure, putting the island firmly on the
e-Gaming map, and attracting several global e-Gaming
companies including the world’s largest poker operator
PokerStars¯ to its purpose built data hosting and
disaster recovery facilities.
Currently, we
provide data centre co-location, fully managed hosted
platforms, and disaster recovery, services for a wide
range of customers in variety of industry sectors,¯ says
Stephen Kane, e-Gaming and e-Business Development
Manager at Manx Telecom.
However, e-Gaming is
somewhat different in that it is a regulated business.
Although we have provided data centre solutions and
services for some years now to companies with full Isle
of Man e-Gaming Licences, the introduction by the
Gambling Supervision Commission of a new Disaster
Recovery Licence is a great step forward. The Isle of
Man, in particular, has lead with way with flexible and
pragmatic e-Gaming legislation under which e-Gaming
companies can put effective disaster recovery
arrangements in place, and we are pleased to be able to
offer e-Gaming clients this facility¯.
The
utility's new licence will cover all its data centre
operations on-Island, enabling it to provide disaster
recovery services to e-Gaming businesses worldwide. Manx
Telecom owns and operates a number of data centre sites
on and off Island, including the Island’s only purpose
built data hosting facility. Staffed by qualified
technicians around the clock and all year it is designed
to deliver 99.999 percent uptime¯ to hosted customers.
The company boats that its data centre services
have achieved 100 percent availability for over 10
years, and its more recently installed high capacity
off-Island networks have achieved 100 percent
availability for over two years.
Garth Kimber,
Head of e-Gaming Development at the Isle of Man
Department for Trade and Industry, said, The Island
continues to attract e-Gaming companies, due in part to
our approach to licensing. Manx Telecom has made
significant investments, and having an e-Gaming disaster
recovery licence can only be good news for the company,
and for the Island.¯ ¯
Online Casino News Courtesy of
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